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Premio Gaetano Marzotto 2016. Swascan among the finalists

Swascan reaches the final for the GALA LAB and CISCO Awards
Milan, 4th of October 2016 – Swascan celebrates the beginning of the autumn season with new goals. The business project Swascan, is born from the idea of Raoul Chiesa, IT Security International expert, later developed by the milanese software house Business Competence and supported by the Venture Incubator Key Capital after the launch in February 2016.
Swascan is the first all-in-one Clud Security Platform, a brand new suite of tools which identify, analize, monitor and verify the vulnerabilites and quality of the network and the source code both for web and its applications. The platform provides avant-garde tools and customized subscriptions according to the number of target: Web App Scan, Network Scan, and the feather in your cap, the Code Review, which allows to test and verify the level of security of the source code of the mobile apps Ios and Android and the webb applications. All-in-one, with a competitive pricing policy.
The best premises to attend the Premio Gaetano Marzotto, the prestigious award at its 6th edition, which recruits new entrepreneurs able to skilfully combine innovation, business and people.
After having applied for the Business Award (Premio per l’impresa), Swascan has become onne of the finalists selected by the panel of the Special Awards GALA LAB and CISCO. The event will take place on the 5th of October at Villa Trissino Marzotto in Vicenza. An important occasion which combines Italian innovation and business.

Key Capital in the pool of investors of the space software Italian startup Leaf Space

Leaf Space, a Milan, Italy-based software platform that aims to facilitate access to space data to microsatellite operators, raised €1m in venture capital funding.

The round was led by RedSeed Ventures with participation from Como Venture, Key Capital, PoliHub, among others.

The company intends to use the funds to launch its first solution, Leaf Line, and other dedicated services.

Co-founded in 2014 by Jonata Puglia, Michele Messina, Giovanni Pandolfi, Matteo Boiocchi and Caterina Siclari, Leaf Space is advancing Leaf Line, a TLC service exclusively dedicated to allowing private microsatellite operators to access space data for such applications as marine traffic tracking, deforestation control, precison agriculture, natural disasters, air pollution, illegal spills, sea search and rescue.
The company was accelerated within Turin-based I3P in 2015.

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Key Capital announces the investment in Swascan, the All-in-one Cloud Security Suite Platform

Key Capital, a Milan-based digital start-up Venture Incubator led by Giorgio Di Stefano, takes a 20% stake in Swascan, the first all-in-one Cloud Security Platform currently round at a three million euros valuation.

Swascan manages digital services to monitor and test website and web application reliability and the satefy of users’ own networks and app code source quality.
Launched in February 2016, Swascan is a 100% Made in Italy project, conceived by Raoul Chiesa, President of Security Brokers and developed by the Milan-based software house Business Competence, partner of Key Capital, which has already been awarded in 2015 by ConfCommercio Premio Innovazione and winner of New York Webby Awards 2015.
Efficiency, and pure innovation with an international echo: Swascan was among the semi-finalists attending the Vator event in Los Angeles. It provides experienced and advanced ICT Security services for government, corporate and industrial organizations, but also for ICT Security freelance users.
Sara Colnago, CEO & co-Founder Business Competence “Web APP Scan, Network Scan and Code Review are peculiarities which fulfil the demanding Italian and international market and place Swascan among the players of a field mostly handed by Americans”.
Giorgio Di Stefano, CEO & Founder Key Capital “The goal of Key Capital is to provide seed funding to fuel new ventures and the strategic investment in Swascan, proves our constant effort to create synergies, through worldwide research, know-how and digital innovation.
Key Capital, Business Competence and Swascan: the perfect combination of 100% Made in Italy expertise, which still confirms the goal on right investment opportunities to promote Italy abroad.